News tagged with university of south australia
Plant life not a villain in methane emissions debate
Biology /
Jan 14, 2009 |
2.8 / 5 (6) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- A comprehensive investigation of plant emissions led by University of South Australia molecular biologist Dr Ellen Nisbet has put pay to the assertion that plants are producing and releasing ...
Search results for university of south australia
Australian coastal and river dwellers at risk of melanoma
Jun 25, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- South Australians living on the coast, near the River Murray and in metropolitan Adelaide are more likely to get skin cancer than their inland cousins.
Rosella research could re-write 'ring theory'
Biology /
Jul 30, 2008 |
4 / 5 (3) |
0
New research has uncovered how different crimson rosella populations are related to each other – a discovery which has important implications for research into how climate change may affect Australia’s biodiversity.
Living fossil still calls Australia home
Biology /
Mar 26, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (22) |
2
They are separated by a vast ocean and by millions of years, but tiny prehistoric bones found on an Australian farm have been directly linked to a strange and secretive little animal that lives today in the southern rainforests ...
New Ice Age maps point to climate change patterns
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (9) |
3
(PhysOrg.com) -- New climate maps of the Earth’s surface during the height of the last Ice Age support predictions that northern Australia will become wetter and southern Australia drier due to climate change.
Researchers find an Australian dinosaur with South American heritage
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 11, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (11) |
0
Australia's links to South America have just gotten a bit closer, but not due to economic forces, rather fossil forces.
Tropical zone expanding due to climate change: study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
3.2 / 5 (15) |
2
Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found.
Intervention needed for Asian mothers, babies
Jul 09, 2008 |
not rated yet |
0
A major international study involving the University of Adelaide, Australia, has shown that intervention is needed in South-East Asia to improve the health of pregnant women and their babies and prevent child and mother mortality.
Planning strategies needed to protect food sources
Aug 06, 2009 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change and urban expansion could threaten the sustainability of horticultural industries in the Adelaide Hills unless a long-term strategy is employed, according to a senior geographer at the University ...
Clean algae biofuel project leads world in productivity
Nov 04, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
0
Australian scientists are achieving the world's best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future.
Protecting natural forests crucial for climate change
Aug 06, 2008 |
3.2 / 5 (12) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- South-east Australia’s natural forests are among the most carbon dense in the world and store three times more carbon than Australian and international climate change experts realise, a world-first ...
List of search results for university of south australia
